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University of Denver and National Trends In Higher Education

August 26, 2013

University of Denver June, 2010 Graduation; Masters’ Program Graduates. At What Cost? With What Future Employment?

What follows here is mostly for my students. Certainly my interest was provoked by the Korbel School of International Studies, where I teach, offering a `global service’ award to George W. Bush, and to give him the opportunity to address the university community here on September 9. A major element – from where I am sitting – in this invitation is the university’s financial future. Of course right now, the University of Denver is not in anything like a financial crisis, at least to my knowledge. But the signs are everywhere and not just at D.U., but nationally. Tuition is going up and has reached what some (especially students) consider to be unsustainable levels at private institutions nationwide. A new generation of faculty is coming on board as baby boomers and pre-baby boomers retire. Many of them have been heavily influenced by the academic environment of the past thirty years, with the noticeable shift to the right of the political spectrum, most especially where it concerns none questions of neo-liberal economic models (but also in other areas).